1.   Even retailers that had bucked the grim apparel trend all year felt the December chill.

2.   Another trend this year is the greater hesitancy to run slashing attack ads.

3.   But that has not been the trend every year.

4.   Each of their four stock charts traces the same down and up trends this year.

5.   Other trends this year also promised to influence television for many years to come.

6.   So does the prospect of dating, although many students said the trend this year was to go with groups of friends rather than with a date.

7.   Talbots and J. Jill are bucking the trend this year.

8.   The big social-issue trend this year is Southern race relations.

9.   The major trend this year has been establishing internet websites for many of the candidates.

10.   The trend this year is to hire teams of executives, particularly in research, analysts said.